Best Sondheim Poems

This is a parody on Gee Officer Krupke from West Side Story .

   Dear  Doctor  Grumpee
   Nobody  knows
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Tastes of the Big Band
Pop and jazz merged with Broadway
Avant-garde comes close


By Robb A. Kopp...

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Sung to Send In The Clowns From A Little Night's Music.

So, what should we say,
right here, today?
Feelings that two people had
on one summers' day,
drifting away...

So,...

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Our Lord’s there for me
There so lovingly
Through the dark He guides me

As He promised me He would
He has always understood
And when I’ve not been good
Still...

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A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on...

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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
      a lyricist of my time
Gypsy, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods…
   He was...

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The happy sound of the coffeemaker.
Or of a welcomed friend’s voice!
Using a real phone, not texting,
You sense  her in real time, a true joy

Maybe...

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No Maria -
when a Bernstein motif lingers.
No rosary beads -
they'll simply slip 
through bourbon-stained fingers.
God carved the seven continents,
with skillful guise, 
and Puccini cries.
Adam's rib...

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Do Fools Wear Crowns?

Is this love’s niche’?  Do we both care?
Me finding love with no bound, your heart elsewhere.   

Do fools wear...

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Goodbye Stephen, you brightened our way 
With lyrics  that said what we couldn’t say,
With music that touched our spirit, our soul, 
You picked us...

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Hands down, perhaps a more sapien trait
than most of the usual attributions of
what it is, that distinguishes humans.
I listen to a prime example of Sondheim
samples...

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Come, I'll teach you sweet love;
forget how hard words are,
tremble like a dove...
touch my warm hand and believe in me for certain:
my trust is never...

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I'm the gentle lover,
  I'm a real delight;
I play this game until it'll be over...
     again I lead.


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I suspect I'm more interested in how Sondheim writes music
than the Beatles,

Although I have no information
to support this paltry hypothesis

Much less could I justify to...

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Lisa and I finally tested covid-free! When we saw our results, we began an impromptu dance that felt like levitation.

Although my covid case seemed much...

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